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REPORT
OF THE
GOVERNOR OF OKLAHOMA.
TERRITORY OF OKLAHOMA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Guthrie, Okia., September 15, 1903.
SIR: In compliance with your communication dated June 27, 1903,
I take pleasure in transmitting to you herewith my report of the
affairs, progress, and development of the Territory of Oklahoma for
the year ended June 30, 1903.
Very respectfully, T. B. FERGUSON,
Governor.
Hon. E. A. ilITcHCoCK,
Secretary qf the Interior, Washington, D. (~.
A perusal of the following pages will disclose the fact that the Ter-ritory
of Oklahoma has an area of 38,830 square miles, is subdivided
into 26 counties, and has an aggregate population of 650,000. She
has 178,964 school children and 2,192 district schoolhouses valued at
$1,347,257; also 7 higher institutions of learning, having a total
enrollment of 2,818 last year; a school fund arising from the leasing
of school land amounting to $181,898.88, which was apportioned during
the year.
Oklahoma leads in railway building, having completed over 1,000
miles of new railroad, and on March 1 had over 2,500 miles of main
track and grade completed. The assessed value of the eight lines of
railway is $7, 851,187. The Territorial tax levy was 6* mills and the
assessed value of taxable property was $84,134,472, as returned by the
assessors, which was on a basis of about one fourth actual value. The
Territorial indebtedness is only $461,766.43. There were 7,451,918
acres of land returned for taxation.
Oklahoma has 232 Territorial banks having a combined capitaliza-tion
of $2,026,330, with deposits of over $7,000,000, and an average
reserve of 52 per cent, being nearly four times the legal requirement.
There are 79 national banks, whose combined capital amounts to
$2,792,500; the deposits therein are over $10,000,000, and they have
an average reserve of 30 per cent.
There are 193 licensed dentists, 403 registered pharmacists, and
1,200 practicing physicians.
Oklahoma has 326 prisoners kept under contract in the Kansas Pen-itentiary,
at a cost to the Territory of $45,742.62. There were 409
INT 1903—MIS, PT 2 29 449

The Governors of Oklahoma Territory issued annual reports from 1891 through 1907, when Oklahoma became a state. These reports, submitted to the Secretary of the Department of the Interior, vary from a few pages to many pages, and report on anything and everything that the current Governor believed to be important.

REPORT
OF THE
GOVERNOR OF OKLAHOMA.
TERRITORY OF OKLAHOMA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Guthrie, Okia., September 15, 1903.
SIR: In compliance with your communication dated June 27, 1903,
I take pleasure in transmitting to you herewith my report of the
affairs, progress, and development of the Territory of Oklahoma for
the year ended June 30, 1903.
Very respectfully, T. B. FERGUSON,
Governor.
Hon. E. A. ilITcHCoCK,
Secretary qf the Interior, Washington, D. (~.
A perusal of the following pages will disclose the fact that the Ter-ritory
of Oklahoma has an area of 38,830 square miles, is subdivided
into 26 counties, and has an aggregate population of 650,000. She
has 178,964 school children and 2,192 district schoolhouses valued at
$1,347,257; also 7 higher institutions of learning, having a total
enrollment of 2,818 last year; a school fund arising from the leasing
of school land amounting to $181,898.88, which was apportioned during
the year.
Oklahoma leads in railway building, having completed over 1,000
miles of new railroad, and on March 1 had over 2,500 miles of main
track and grade completed. The assessed value of the eight lines of
railway is $7, 851,187. The Territorial tax levy was 6* mills and the
assessed value of taxable property was $84,134,472, as returned by the
assessors, which was on a basis of about one fourth actual value. The
Territorial indebtedness is only $461,766.43. There were 7,451,918
acres of land returned for taxation.
Oklahoma has 232 Territorial banks having a combined capitaliza-tion
of $2,026,330, with deposits of over $7,000,000, and an average
reserve of 52 per cent, being nearly four times the legal requirement.
There are 79 national banks, whose combined capital amounts to
$2,792,500; the deposits therein are over $10,000,000, and they have
an average reserve of 30 per cent.
There are 193 licensed dentists, 403 registered pharmacists, and
1,200 practicing physicians.
Oklahoma has 326 prisoners kept under contract in the Kansas Pen-itentiary,
at a cost to the Territory of $45,742.62. There were 409
INT 1903—MIS, PT 2 29 449